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Introduction: SociALE

The project "SociALE" was developed in a Hackathon workshop during the laboratory week of the university of design Schwäbisch Gmünd under the theme "use things better together". Our group, which consisted of Josh Cornau, Sven Barth, Luca Stetter and Fabian Seeger, decided to develop a networking beer bottle, which should make drinking more social. For this purpose, in our first development phase, we wanted to equip two beer bottles each with an RFID scanner and an RFID chip. If you cheers or better say scan the chip of the other bottle, the bottle should open a cap for a certain time using a mounted servomotor and then close it again. When we developed this usecase so far, we tried to develop application areas for this case and to extend our application with additional features.

Here we came to the case of a trade fair. The visitors of the exhibition place their data in advance on the website of the trade fair, like a business card with links to their social networking profiles such as Xing, Facebook etc. Each visitor receives a personalized

"Soci ale" bottle at the entrance and visits the trade fair visitors.

If you push with someone, the bottle opens for a time window of 5 min, while the data of the conversation partner are transferred to the bottle of the counterpart via the RFID connection. The opening mechanism is limited to a single time, i.e., Users are practically forced to network. At the end of the trade show, visitors can read out the contact data they have collected via the database via a MySQL database.

Step 2: Assemble Your Stuff

Attache the RFID shield to the arduino-board.

Now bridge the IRQ Pinn with the digital pin 7. Connect the servo to pin 9 and connect it to the power pins of the arduino. Afterwards connect the battery with the Vin Pin and the Ground Pin. Now attach the Button to pin 12.

Step 3: Code - Arduino

The code checks if there is a RFID code to scan, if there is one, the beer opens and the RFID code will be saved in an array. Now on you need another RFID code to open your bottle again.When you press your button, all the saved RFID codes will be printed on the serial output.

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Step 5: Database

On a MAMP server we simulated a mySQL database on which user profiles with different social networking profiles were stored. They were given a front-end via HTML and CSS, on which unique user profiles could be found using the RFID codes as a primary key.